OT: Any Ray Harryhausen fan here?

[houserunner]

I love Ray Harryhausen's classics. His incredible stop motion technic - dynamation, right? - is a joy to watch. My favorite Harryhausen film is THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD and favorite moment is skeleton army sequence from JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS.

Sam Raimi did great tribute to skeleton sequence several times. And many modern day special effects men and women are all influenced by master of stop motion animation.

Any Harryhausen fan here? If so, please let me know your favorite Harryhausen moment or film. I want to hear other GAC members thoughts about this legendary special effects master.

[J. A. Boschen]

I always enjoyed and admired Harryhausen's work. "Jason and the Argonauts" is my favorite Harryhausen feature. Coming in second place is "Seventh Voyage of Sinbad". The music score, animation, visuals, stories, etc. have always made these two gems fun to watch. Also Ray Harryhausens early educational cartoons are also fun to watch.

[Tom Stathes]

I like his fairytale shorts from the 40s. They have an old-world simplistic charm to them...especially the fact that (I think all of them) simply have music instead of dialogue.

[J. J. Hunsecker]

I like Harryhausen's animation too, as well as Willis O'Brien's.

If you like stop motion animation, here's (http://www.darkstrider.net/gallery2a.html) a good site to see some clips.

[Eugene the Jeep]

I like him.

[Chow Hound]

I've been a Harryhausen fan for over 30 years. The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms is my favorite. I can't wait for the colorized versions of his B&W films. He's supervising the colorization and choosing the color pallette himself to reflect what he would have done initially if he could have afforded color film (and had the technology to make the effects look as good in color as in B&W - apparently a problem at the time of his earliest films).

[merc]

I remember when I was young going to my small town theater and seeing "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad" after already seeing it at a larger theater while visiting my grandmother. During the part with the cyclops, some of the girls would go to the store next door and wait for the scene to be over before returning. Harryhausen's animation may seem tame by today's standards, but he was a pioneer of this type of animation.